Shoe-dauber.



PATENTED JUNE 11, 1907.

W. W. PEYTON. SHOE D AUBER.

APPLIOATION- FILED JUNE 20,1906.

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WVILLIAM IV. PEYTON, OF CARLISLE, ARKANSAS.

SHOE-DAUBEFI,

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 11, 1907.

Application filed June 20,1906. Serial No. 322,616.

To Call 11/71/0717 if many concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM W. PEYTON, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Carlisle, in the county of lionoke and State of Arkansas, have invented new and useful Improvements in Shoe-Daubers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to shoe (laubers designed especially for use in connection with liquid blacking bottles, and has for its objects to produce a comparatively simple, inexpensive device of this character which may be conveniently manipulated for applying liquid blacking or paste to the shoes, and one which may be readily handledwithout soiling the hands of the operator.

,A further object of the invention is to provide a novel l orm ol handle for manipulating the dauber, one which serves as a clamp for maintaining the paste applying cloth on the body of the device, and one wherein the bristles forming the daubing brush are eIlectually secured to the dauber stem or shank.

With these and other objects in view, the invention comprises the novel features ol" construction and combination of parts more fully hereinafter described.

In the accompanying drawings: Figure 1 is a perspective view of a dauber embodying the invention. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a detail view of the dauber stem.

Referring to the drawings, 1 designates a body portion prelerabtv composed of cork and in the form of a stopper adapted for closing the mo'uthot the blacki ng bottle, there being engaged with the body one end of a vertically depending stem or shank 2 preferably composed of Wire and having its body engaging end provided with an engaging hook 3 adapted for secure engagement with the material of the bod or stopper, while formed at the lower end of the stem is a bristle receiving hook 4 presenting an upwardly opening slot or recess 5 in which the bristles lorming the dauber brush 6 are seated, and secured in place by means of a tie element or wire 7 wrapped or coiled around the bristles. It will be understood in this connection that the bristles are, in the formation of the brush, engaged at their longitudinal center in the seat or recess 5 being thereafter folded and tied by means of the wire 7.

For manipulating the device there is pro- 5 vided a handle 8 formed of a single piece or length of Wire bent to provide a central spring clamping portion or coil 9 designed to embrace the body 1 and having a pair of substantially parallel spaced arms, one of which is formed with a terminal engaging port-ion or hook l0 adapted for engagement with any one of a series of engaging portions or eyes 11 produced at the terminal ol" the other arm by suitably bending the material thereol into shape, it being noted that the series ol engaging portions or eyes 11 are arranged in spaced order and disposed. in a plane perpendicularly to the longitudinal axis ol" the handle.

Employed in connection with the device and for use in applying paste or solid blacking to the shoes is a piece ol" cloth or other suitable pliable material 12 adapted for application over the upper end ol" the body or stopper 1 and to be secured in place thereon through the medium of the clamping portion or ring 9, whereby the cloth is removably maintained in place for convenient replacement when desired.

In practice, the stopper 1 is seated in and for closing the neck ol a bottle, as usual, and with the brush 6 immersed in the liquid blacking. Under these conditions when it is desired to apply the blacking to a shoe, the arms of the handle are disengaged lrom each other and the clamping ring 9 seated over the stopper as seen in Fig. l, atter which the handle arms are brought together until the ring is in secure clamping engagement with. the stopper, after which the hook 10 is engaged with one oi the eyes ll. The handle may then be employed for removing the stopper from the bottle and for holding the device while applying the blacking to the shoe and this without soiling the hands ol the operator. hen shoe paste or solid blacking is to be applied to the shoe, the cloth 12 is arranged over the end ol the stopper and clamped in position thereon through the medium oi the ring 9 in the operation ol engaging the handle with the body.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is:

l. A device ol the class described comprising a body, a dauber brush having a stem engaged with the body, and a handle having a spring clamping coil designed to embrace and for clamping engagement with the body.

2. A device ol the class described comprising a body portion, a dauber carried thereby, a handle having a spring clamping coil designed to embrace the body, a pair of arms joined to the coil and movable for expanding or contracting the latter, and means for connecting the ends of the arms 3; A device of the class described comprising abodyportion and a dauber carried therel by, and a handle composed of a single piece l of material and consisting of a pair of spaced arms oined at one end With a spring clamping coil designed to embrace the body and I provided at their outer ends with interengag- Io ing devices for fixing the arms in clamping posltion.

In testimony whereof, I affix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

YVILLIAM XV. PEYTON. W'itnesses DAN LEWIs, E. A. WILsoN. 

